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New York, October 29, 2014--Iranian authorities have detained for almost a week a journalist affiliated with the semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), a media outlet that has covered a series of acid attacks on women in the country, according to news reports. Four other staff members affiliated with the agency were arrested on Monday and have been released, the reports said.

Syria and Libya were
the main themes at the 19th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize for
War Correspondents, which took place this weekend in the historical city of
Bayeux, a few miles away from the Normandy beaches where Allied forces landed
in June 1944 to liberate Europe from the Nazi yoke.

New York, March 22, 2011--Plainclothes gunmen raided Al-Jazeera's
Sana'a bureau early this morning, confiscating equipment and obstructing
operations, the Qatar-based news channel reported today as a drumbeat of
anti-press attacks continued in the region. Arrests, attacks, and harassment
were also reported in Libya, Syria and Bahrain in recent days.

New York, March 21,
2011 - CPJ welcomes the release of four New York Times journalists
in Libya but remains deeply concerned about 13 other journalists who are either
missing or reported in Libyan government custody.